Sayings about People
Good people, like clouds, receive only to give away. ~ Indian Proverbs
All dumb people have a lot to say. ~ Yiddish Proverb
If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel. ~ Congolese Proverbs
The world could have been great if only people had been more useful. ~ German Proverbs
Rich people never know who their friends are. ~ French Proverbs
For people who love even water is sweet. ~ Chinese Proverbs
You will never be punished for making people die of laughter. ~ Chinese Proverb
The voice of the people is louder than the boom of a canon. ~ Armenian Proverbs
A thousand people cannot undress a naked person. ~ Greek Proverbs
Who builds upon the people, builds upon sand. ~ Italian Proverbs
The less people think the more they talk. ~ Traditional Proverb
If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. ~ Yiddish Proverb
People who are asleep can’t fall down. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Only other people’s eggs are double-yolked. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs
People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
The secret of two people is God’s secret, the secret of three people is everybody’s secret. ~ French Proverbs
Where rich people can make honest money, poor people have to steal. ~ Gypsy Proverbs
Poor people entertain with the heart. ~ Haitian Proverbs
Where there is no vision, people perish. ~ Biblical Proverb
Go with the powerful and people will kneel before you. ~ Palestinian Proverbs
People aren’t good unless others are made better by them. ~ Welsh Proverbs
Most people forget everything except being ungrateful. ~ Islamic Proverb
Better ten people hurt than one dead. ~ French Proverb
Some people want to be praised for the rest of their lives for what they have done well for one day. ~ Chinese Proverb
As people go their own way, destiny goes with them. ~ Tamil Proverbs
There are people that fish and those who just disturb the water. ~ Chinese Proverb
Small people always cast big shadows. ~ French Proverb
People count the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~ French Proverb
Sick people are like kings. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
The silence of the people is a warning for the king. ~ French Proverb
A house full of people is a house full of different points of view. ~ New Zealander Proverbs
The king inherits a country — the people only hard work. ~ Malagasy Proverb
The people want to be deceived. ~ Latin Proverbs
People lend only to the rich. ~ Traditional Proverb
Locks can not be made from good iron, soldiers are not made out of good people. ~ Chinese Proverb
People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor? ~ African Proverb
Long or short, a stick is always a stick; tall or short, people are always people. ~ Chinese Proverb
People live in each other’s shelter. ~ Irish Proverbs
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures. ~ French Proverb
He who leaves his people will be left by God. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Some people are born hammers, others anvils. ~ Traditional Proverb
What the people believe is true. ~ Native American Proverbs
Over-intelligent people can’t find friends. ~ Japanese Proverb
Lazy people are always eager to be doing something. ~ French Proverb
A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are. ~ Traditional Proverb
Lazy people always want to do everything at the same time. ~ Chinese Proverb
Three kinds of people die poor: those who divorce, those who incur debts, and those who move around too much. ~ Senegalese Proverb
Absent people do not inherit. ~ French Proverb
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. ~ Yiddish Proverb
People talk about something until it actually happens. ~ German Proverb
Evil people know one another. ~ Arabian Proverb
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them. ~ Chinese Proverb
People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
Empty barrels and insignificant people always make the most noise. ~ Greek Proverb
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do. ~ French Proverb
Rich people eat gold and shit lead. ~ French Proverb
Never spend time with people who don’t respect you. ~ New Zealander Proverb
Quiet people are well able to look after themselves. ~ Irish Proverb
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. ~ Yiddish Proverb
When a king makes a mistake, all the people suffer. ~ Chinese Proverb
With nice appearance people want to be deceived. ~ German Proverb
While the sun is still up, let people work that the earth may live. ~ Hawaiian Proverb
People give, but don’t be in a hurry to take. ~ Cambodian Proverbs
Fate sends almonds to toothless people. ~ Spanish Proverb
Hunger brings people down, but pride can help them get up. ~ Mexican Proverbs
Most people like short prayers and long sausages. ~ German Proverb
People can be done without but a lot of us need a friend. ~ Chinese Proverb
In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous. ~ Iranian Proverb
People die voluntarily when it becomes impossible to live. ~ Chinese Proverb
People are the architects of their own fortune. ~ Spanish Proverb
Make peace with people; wage war with your sins. ~ Russian Proverb
Lazy people will eventually lose even their trousers. ~ Filipino Proverb
Sick people have no friends. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
The people make the town. ~ Greek Proverb
Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave. ~ Yiddish Proverb
People live like birds in a wood: When the time comes, each takes flight. ~ Chinese Proverb
There are many people who can sing, but don’t know the words. ~ Indian Proverbs
Urge people to work, not to eat. ~ Chinese Proverb
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised. ~ Traditional Proverb
More people die from overeating than from undernourishment. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves. ~ Zen Proverb
Invite people into your parlor, and they will come into your bedroom. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverb
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their skins. ~ Japanese Proverb
People show their character by what they laugh at. ~ German Proverb
The law is good, but people are not. ~ Chinese Proverb
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice. ~ Bible
People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything. ~ Filipino Proverbs
More people drown in glasses than in rivers. ~ German Proverb
As long as a language lives, the people will not perish. ~ Czech Proverbs
People in trouble remember God. ~ Nigerien Proverbs
The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn’t get along without them. ~ American Proverbs
Don’t shoot people you hate; don’t lend to those you love. ~ Cambodian Proverb
Lazy people have no spare time. ~ Japanese Proverb
It’s better for people to wait for rice, than rice for people. ~ Chinese Proverb
Happy people never count hours as they pass. ~ Chinese Proverb
For lazy people it is always party time. ~ Greek Proverb
People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age. ~ Chinese Proverb
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. ~ Jewish Proverb
There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don’t know what’s happening. ~ American Proverb
The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
Even in Mecca people make money. ~ Nigerian Proverb
If you give people nuts, you’ll get shells thrown at you. ~ Yemeni Proverbs
Other people’s money has sharp teeth. ~ Russian Proverb
All poor people ain’t black/ and all black people ain’t poor. ~ African-American Proverb
Excellent people are honored wherever they go. ~ Tibetan Proverb
Bad people don’t sing. ~ Gypsy Proverb
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. ~ Traditional Proverb
A lot of people become saints because of their stomach. ~ Indian Proverb
The poorhouse is filled with honest people. ~ Italian Proverb
Worthless people blame their karma. ~ Myanmar Proverb
Quotations about People
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. ~ Lewis B. Smedes
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police. ~ Jack Nicholson
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. ~ Edmund Burke
The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses. ~ Juvenal
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice. ~ Bible
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. ~ Robert Townsend
A lot of people have the ability, but they don’t put forth the effort. ~ Joe Carter
The only real people are the people who never existed. ~ Oscar Wilde
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. ~ Antisthenes
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. ~ Helen Rowland
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. ~ Bernard Meltzer
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, “There you are!” and those who say, “Here I am.” ~ Abigail Van Buren
What we know of other people’s only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. ~ T. S. Eliot
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. ~ Johnny Cash
No two people on earth are alike. ~ Billie
When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere. ~ Mac Orlan
We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run. ~ John F. Kennedy
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The character of the common people changes in a single day. ~ Voltaire
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. ~ Joe Ancis
People don’t live or die, people just float. ~ Bob Dylan
By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost. ~ Confucius
The people are to be taken in small doses. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ~ Nolan Bushnell
A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been rather than where they are going. ~ Author Unknown
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. ~ Daniel Webster
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. ~ John Ruskin
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~ Ansel Adams
When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other, they look in the same direction. ~ Ginger Rogers
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who are always getting ready to do something, and those who go ahead and do it. ~ Elbert Hubbard
The will of the people is the best law. ~ Ulysses Simpson Grant
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. ~ Lee Iacocca
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. ~ Victor Borge
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ~ Thomas A. Edison
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. ~ Mark Twain
A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one. ~ Chuck Norris
A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do. ~ Marilyn Manson
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. ~ Zedong Mao
There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there. ~ Indira Gandhi
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. ~ Walt Whitman
We the People, Volume 1: Foundations. ~ Book preview